For those of us on Jobs options watch, there are some disturbing results here. Not only was Brant fined, but he was barred from every holding a top office at a publicly traded company again.

However, the charges were considerably different than what Jobs was involved in.

The SEC and New York prosecutors accused Brant of awarding himself 10 backdated option grants from 1997 to 2003 for a total of about 2.1 million shares of Take-Two stock, all of which he exercised before resigning from the company in October.

Looks like Brant will avoid jail, sparing himself the uncomfortable irony of having to do time with actual car-jackers.

It is a totally different situation. The Take Two exec backdated options he issued to himself, and falsified records to hide it. Jobs allowed others to issue backdated options and it was recorded properly. It’s the difference between murder 1 and being in the same city where somebody died accidentally.

how about just making the background for the comments the same color as the background for the posts?

or at least using the same background color for all the comments. i like the gray better than the yella. the alternating colors is not my favorite thing. i was going to say it’s irritating, but it’s really not irritating.